Past Funding

Funds a national membership, accreditation, and subgrant program for state and local CASA programs. The award for this program was made through a competitive process in 2009 for a multi-year project period with annual supplemental funding. The Office of Justice Programs determined that the project period for this program would be 3 years. FY 2010 is year 2 of the project period. The National Court Appointed Special Advocates Association, headquartered in Seattle, WA, is the only eligible applicant for this continuation funding.

Provides funding to support a national training and technical assistance program for state and local CASA programs. The award for this program was made through a competitive process in 2009 for a multi-year project period with annual supplemental funding. OJP has determined that the project period for this program will be 3 years. FY 2010 is year 2 of the project period. The National Court Appointed Special Advocates Association, headquartered in Seattle, WA, is the only eligible applicant for this continuation funding.

Participating states must follow the application process outlined in this announcement. This program supports states and units of local government in their efforts to strengthen their juvenile justice systems.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) will assist communities in establishing or expanding mentoring and support services for youth in foster care and foster care youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

The successful applicant will provide training and technical assistance to support mentoring programs and initiatives funded by OJJDP, including the Recovery Act National Mentoring Program and the Recovery Act Local Youth Mentoring Initiative.

OJJDP seeks applicants to establish mentoring programs that offer a mixture of core services and engage youth with activities that enable them to practice healthy behaviors within a positive pro-social peer group. The target population should be youth at risk of gang activity, delinquency, and youth violence.

The Improving Community Response to the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children program will support communities in combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children by improving training and coordination activities within the community.

In support of the goals of the Second Chance Act (P.L. 110-199), OJJDP will provide grants to support mentoring and other transitional services essential to reintegrating juvenile offenders into the community. The grants will be used for mentoring juvenile offenders during confinement, through transition back to the community, and post-release; transitional services to assist the reintegration of youth offenders into the community; and training in offender and victims issues.

The Second Chance Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-199) supports a comprehensive response to the increasing number of people who are released from prison, jail, and juvenile facilities each year and are returning to their communities. The Second Chance Act will help juvenile participants released from residential confinement to successfully transition back into society.